DUSHANBE, November 15, 2014, Asia-Plus — Over the first ten months of this year, the external trade turnover of Tajikistan, including electrical power and natural gas, has amounted to almost 4.4 billion U.S. dollars, which was 108.1 percent of the January-October 2013 level or 330 million USD more, according the Agency for Statistics under the President of Tajikistan.
The trade balance was negative and amounted to more than 2.7 billion U.S. dollars.
Over the first ten months of this year, exports of goods have amounted to 812 million U.S. dollars, which was 3.8 percent more than in the same period last year.
Over the same ten-month period, imports of goods into the country have amounted to more than 3.5 billion U.S. dollars, which was 9.1 percent more than in January-October 2013.
In January-October this year, Tajikistan has had trade relations with 98 countries of the world, including ten CIS nations.
In January-October 2014, major trading partners of Tajikistan were: Russia – more than 1 billion USD; Kazakhstan – more than 695 million USD; and China – some 645 million USD.
We will recall that in 2013 the external trade turnover of Tajikistan amounted to some 5 billion U.S. dollars, which was 102.9 percent of the 2012 level or 146.7 million U.S. dollars more.
